The phrase "woman saints" refers to holy or spiritually revered women who are seen as role models for their virtuous lives, pious acts, and strong faith in religious or spiritual contexts. Full definition
Over the past two years, he has devoted nearly twenty Wednesday audiences to singing the praises of the great women saints and explaining how their experiences and insights can still speak to us today. (firstthings.com)
do they really think making one woman a saint is going to forgive the countless lives of the native Americans they took; that doing this is going to mend the bonds you shattered through their genocide? (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
The first note in this direction was struck by the woman saint of Basra, Rabi`a (died 185; AD. (religion-online.org)